Summary

Founded in 1947, the Roper Center for Public Opinion
Research is a leading educational facility in the field of public
opinion. Housed at the University of Connecticut, the Roper Center
offers its subscribers online access to its computer-based library of
survey research and public opinion data. Along with iPOLL (a
comprehensive source for United States public opinion data), the
archive includes survey data collections covering such topical areas
as: elections, presidential approval ratings, social and political
trends, and Japanese and European world views. Descriptions of all of
the Center's archived datasets are available online, and codebooks are
available to download without subscribing. The site also offers a
bibliographic database of citations for works based in part on Roper
Center data resources and collections.